Quotes About Patriotism

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

It is sweet and right to die for your country…. an old and dangerous lie. It might be necessary, but it is never sweet and rarely right. It's a tragedy.

There was nothing right or good in dying for your country. A necessity, sometimes, yes. But always a tragedy. Not an aspiration.

Gens du Pays. The separatist anthem,

Pro patria mori,

It is sweet and right to die for your country.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled; Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victory.

All the best elements of patriotism—the spirit of sacrifice, the desire for justice and protection for the oppressed—sprouted in the soil of chivalry. It is in the classic country of chivalry

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

What's dooty, if you won't carry it to the other side of Hell? What's the use of yapping about your country if you're going to keep something back when she calls for it? What's the good of meaning to win the war if you don't put every cent you've got on your stake?... No, Dick, that kind of dooty don't deserve a blessing. You dursn't keep anything back if you want to save your soul.

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up "Stars and Stripes Forever."

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.